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The plight of the baby boomers begins. Americans are getting older and this means greater demands on the health care system. A new study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control showed that doctor and hospital visits are up 20{86a37033c8c1cee34684295718746ee9fc26ba1ceeea2da442b317c06ac0126e} in the last five years, a trend likely to continue.

The study revealed that Americans paid 2.5 billion visits to health care providers in 2005. That’s about 10 visits per person if you assume everyone in the country is making visits – which you know ain’t true. That means somebody’s going to the doctor a lot. And what are they walking away with? Antidepressants mostly – 118 million records of them, followed by heart meds and painkillers.

There’s always a side-effect

Couple this data with another new study that suggests antidepressants are associated with loss of bone density in older adults and we are asking for problems. Evidence is emerging that the most common class of antidepressants may contribute to fragile bones in the elderly.

This class of drugs works by altering how your brain uses serotonin, a major mood-regulating hormone. But serotonin is used in many other parts of the body as well, including the digestive system, the cardiovascular system and bone metabolism – therefore, side effects. One of these side effects now appears to be decreasing bone density and increasing risk for osteoporosis or bone fracture.

It’s never too late to start

However, amidst all of this doom and gloom there is light – if we decide to use it. Another study found that middle aged adults who adopt a healthy lifestyle can ‘catch up’ to already healthy folks in an average of four years. Researchers found that adults who started eating five servings of fruits and veggies, getting 2.5 hours per week of exercise, maintaining their weight in a healthyish range and refrained from smoking, decreased their chance of heart disease and death to that of healthy people.

The downside is that most people decide not to take advantage of their ability to recover and choose to remain on the slippery slope. Out of the 16,000 Americans followed in the study, only 8.5{86a37033c8c1cee34684295718746ee9fc26ba1ceeea2da442b317c06ac0126e} were already doing what’s needed to maintain their health and another 8.4{86a37033c8c1cee34684295718746ee9fc26ba1ceeea2da442b317c06ac0126e} picked up the habits with six years of the study’s beginning. Those that did reaped the rewards of reduced heart attacks and morbidity. Those that didn’t, well . . .

Find an accountability partner

It’s not that we don’t know what to do, it’s just that we don’t do it. I encourage everyone to find an accountability partner and set a realistic health goal. Find someone that you can be honest with and that will help keep you on course when you falter. We are all much more likely to stay on track when we know someone will be asking us about our efforts. Make a contract with someone else to get your daily doses of fruits and veggies, get your 30 minutes of daily exercise and move closer to healthy weight.

The problem is that it’s no longer just about choosing to live healthy or not. The entire health care system is strained and on the verge of collapse. As the baby boomers move into their elder years it will be stressed even more. We must educate and motivate people into action, literally.

When John F. Kennedy said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” he probably wasn’t thinking about taking a walk around the block. But now, more than 45 years after that famous speech, getting healthy is one of the greatest things you can do for yourself and your country.

There are different types of health insurance schemes which cover different types of illnesses and hence the insurance companies set their rates accordingly. Acquiring cheap health insurance plans requires a lot of hard work and research so that the person does not end up in buying the wrong plan.

People from all over the world are in search of the cheapest health insurance plan which would provide them with the maximum coverage in that particular cost. But these days, as the numbers of diseases in the world are increasing, the cost of the health insurance plans provided by small and big insurance companies is also increasing continuously. But despite of the rising costs of the health insurance plans in the market, there are certain ways through which a person can get cheap health insurance plans for himself or his family members.

In order to acquire the cheapest possible health insurance plan, a person needs to do some basic research on the internet or ask the people around him about the different types of coverage plans that health insurance can provide it to him. The internet is the best source to know about all kinds of coverage that a health insurance would provide it to the person. Once the person gets to know about all the coverage types that a health insurance can provide him, he can decide that what type of coverage is best suitable for him.

He can then compare the various health insurance quotes provided by different insurance companies on the internet. There are several websites on the internet which provide the feature to compare two or more health insurance quotes so that the person can easily decide that which health insurance is best suitable for his needs and requirements that would also fit under his pockets. After comparing and deciding the type of health insurance plan, he can either contact an insurance dealer or directly the insurance providing company from whom he wishes to buy the health insurance plan. This way, he will be able to get cheap health insurance easily.

Holistic health and its treatments are not new. It is an age old concept but came into limelight these days. It is now become talk of the town and alluring many people towards the new concept of health care. The delay is because of headstrongness in the medical field and it is often slow to accept new ways of treatment.

Holistic health treatments are more an approach to how individuals should be treated rather than a treatment concept in and of itself. Those who practice holistic treatment believe that maintaining good health is more than simply taking care of the various parts of the body and it includes emotional and spiritual aspects as well. The primary objective of holistic health treatments is to achieve complete health, not simply a lack of disease or physical pain.

Holistic Health Treatments are not only based on treating physical symptoms but underlying psychological and emotional issues responsible for illness as well. In order to achieve total health, one should take into consideration, physical, spiritual and emotional factors to devise an effective treatment plan.

The tendency of a person to overcome health issues depends also on his willpower and to revoke his willpower a person should consider all the related factors. Medicines work only if the person is strong from his inside otherwise nothing would work on his body. Disease is a demonstration of an existing inequity that the individual is unable to resolve on any level.

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